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The radio station began broadcasting on 9 September 1994, after having started test transmission nine days before (31 August). It was known as TIME Highway Radio until 2005 and includes segments in Malay (), English and for a short period, in Mandarin (Mun Toh Tak), with Tamil-language segment (Raaga) being introduced later, as well as Hindi Power, a segment that focused mainly on Bollywood music.
Time Highway Radio was taken over by Astro Radio in 2005. It became a Tamil-language station known as "THR Raaga" on the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. On the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia it became known as "THR Gegar", broadcasting in Malay. Both stations later dropped the "THR" brand and simply became "Raaga" and "Gegar" respectively.
On 9 September, at precisely 3:00 pm local time, symbolically in line with its '99.3' frequency THR officially came into being, operating in both Malay and English for 24 hours a day on the 80:20 formula - 80% broadcast time was in English, 20% in Malay; it was the second station in Malaysia to go round-the-clock after Klasik Nasional FM (then ...
From July 2018, THR Gegar broadcasts from 02:00 to 06:00 on Raaga's FM frequencies was discontinued, and the latter became 24 hours. Previously, 24 hour broadcasts of Raaga were only available through online and Astro channel 859. THR Gegar's frequencies are only broadcast in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia and not in other states.
8 Malaysia. 9 Mauritius. 10 Singapore. ... Tamil online radio, Toronto, ... THR Raaga (formerly TIME Highway Radio) Mauritius. ONEX FM Radio;
Kalakkal Kalai, currently known as THR Raaga #OHHSOME Kalakkal Kalai with Hotlink due to sponsorship, is a Malaysian Tamil language breakfast radio show that airs on THR Raaga. [1] The show were hosted by Aanantha and Uthaya with nearly 700,000 listener every day. [2]
Gheetha Ammasee was born in an Indian Malaysian Tamil family in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia as the daughter of a plantation owner. [1] She started off as a host on the Malaysian television channel NTV7 on a show called Rhythm And Raaga, [2] [3] before starting her career as a radio jockey at the Malaysian Tamil radio station, THR Raaga. [4]
1998 (as an Astro-only audio channel) , 2004 (as an FM radio station) 857 THR Gegar: A Malay-language radio station targeting the East Coast area. Malay: 1994 (original, as THR), 2005 (acquisition) 863 Raaga: Astro Radio's only Tamil-language radio station, targeting the West Coast area. Tamil: 1994 (original, as THR), 2005 (acquisition) 859 Melody